Tuesday 8th April, 6:30pm Thomas Harding in conversation with Adrian Wooldridge

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Italy, Summer 1944. A unit of German soldiers arrives at a villa near Florence. Villa Il Focardo is home to Robert Einstein, cousin to the most famous scientist in the world, Albert Einstein – a prominent enemy of the Nazi regime. Having renounced his German citizenship a decade earlier, Albert is safely in America, well beyond Hitler’s reach. The same is not true for his cousin. Twelve hours after arriving, the soldiers have vanished – and a family is dead.

This crime – and what happened next – still haunts those who survived. Who ordered it? Who was involved? And why did they get away with it? This is the untold story of the Einstein vendetta.

“Gripping… finely researched, superbly written and deeply important book” – Anne Sebba, Spectator World

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Thomas Harding is a bestselling author whose books have been translated into more than twenty languages. He has written for the Sunday Times, the Washington Post and the Guardian, among other publications. He is the author of Hanns and Rudolf, which won the Wingate Prize for Non-Fiction, and The House by the Lake, which was shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award. His book Blood on the Page won the Crime Writers’ Association Golden Dagger Award for Non-Fiction, while White Debt was long-listed for the Moore Prize for Human Rights Writing. More recently, his biography of the publisher George Weidenfeld, The Maverick, was selected by the New York Times as a Critic’s Pick for 2023. His new book The Einstein Vendetta is published in April 2025. Thomas is also the author of three picture books for children, including The House by the Lake, which was nominated for the Kate Greenaway Medal. He lives in Hampshire, England, with his wife, the author Debora Harding. 

Adrian Wooldridge is the global business columnist for Bloomberg Opinion. A former writer at the Economist, he is author of “The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World.”